There’s relentless pressure on our city to present that famous sunny face day after day, so Miami ended a pleasant January streak with a gray, rainy, chilly message not to take it for granted as the Miami Marathon and Half Marathon got underway.

Clemson and Dabo Swinney never stopped believing, not until the last second. Deshaun Watson’s touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow in the college football championship game kept the Crimson Tide from rolling to another title.

Florida State capitalized on its superior speed -- most of it originating in the Sunshine State with its Florida-born players -- to defeat Michigan 33-32 on the strength of big plays in another thrilling Orange Bowl game.

Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh has turned around the program in two seasons, borrowing from the philosophy of his old mentor Bo Schembechler and injecting his own style of energy. His No. 6 Wolverines play No. 11 Florida State in Friday’s Capital One Orange Bowl.

Miami Heat forward Justise Winslow in uniform was a sight for sore eyes on this bruised team, the most injured in the NBA. Everyone else was available, too, except Dion Waiters, still out with a groin strain. Now that the 9-17 Heat has regained some depth, it can begin clawing up to a .500 record.

Fidel Castro abolished professional sports in Cuba in 1961, imposing a system in which athletes competed for country rather than riches. But as Cuba’s Maximum Leader is laid to rest, baseball players continue to flee the island and Olympic athletes are winning fewer medals as his sports legacy is on the verge of collapse.

Carl Edwards, who lost to Tony Stewart in the closest NASCAR championship finish five years ago, gets another chance to win the Cup at Homestead-Miami Speedway in a winner-take-all race against three finalists.

Butch Davis is wildly happy about accepting the job of head football coach at Florida International University. If you listen to his reasons for deciding to tilt at the FIU windmill, you will be wildly happy for him and his players.

Miami Heat veteran Udonis Haslem is just as curious as coach Erik Spoelstra and the rest of us as to what this sapling of a team will look like when it grows up. But he’s optimistic, and he saw glimpses of the source of that optimism Wednesday night.